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yellow boy en · NOUN
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(archaic, countable, historical, slang) A gold coin; a guinea or sovereign.
This enchanting game she has played for two years, and if you are her partner, she expects at least double the number of yellow boys.
1789, Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, London: H. Ranger, page 63:“Damn them, (cried the commodore) I wish both their necks were broke, thof the two cost me forty good yellow-boys.” “Forty guineas! (exclaimed the stranger […]).”
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
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(slang, uncountable) Iron(III) hydroxide, a yellow-orange solid found in acidic water from mining projects.
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(US, countable, historical, slang) Synonym of goldback (“kind of gold certificate”).
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goldback